The company offers opportunity to emerging professional opera singers, providing the opportunity to work with professional directors, musicians, designers and the Surrey Opera Chorus.
Alumni of Surrey Opera include known singers Peter Sidhom, Russell Smythe, Susan Gritton and David Soar.
While opera forms the majority of its repertoire, the company also performs operettas, musicals and soirées.
The company's first production was Mozart's The Magic Flute, performed in the Market Hall, Redhill, Surrey in June 1970.
Composed by Louis Mander to libretto by Stephen Fry, it was based on E.M.Forster's short story "The Life to Come".